Ownwership of threads
Questions and Answers :
Wish list :
Ownwership of threads
Message board moderation
| Author | Message |
|---|---|
rob smith    Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22624 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 
 |
No Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1992663 ·  |
 Gary Charpentier  Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31086 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 
 |
Can an OP of a thread transfer ownership to another poster? Can a moderator or administrator? ID: 1992927 · |
|
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22624 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380
|
It may be possible for someone with full access to the forum server and database to do such a change, but the moderators do not have that access. One possible (but messy) solution is for the "new owner" to create the new thread, then for each contributor to request their posts be moved from the old thread to the new one. This may be OK for a thread with only a handful of posts, but for a thread with even a few dozen its going to be a very time consuming task and will result in a lot of moderation notices being generated and distributed. A better solution for large threads would be to create the new thread and ask for the newest handful of posts to be moved across, having first locked the old thread. But even that is not a trivial task. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1992928 · |
©2025 University of California
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.